{"product_id":"technology-and-values-isbn-9781405149006","title":"Technology and Values","description":"This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUseful in addressing questions on philosophy, sociology, and theory of technology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes wide-ranging coverage on metaphysics, ethics, and politics, as well as issues relating to gender, biotechnology, everyday artifacts, and architecture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA good supplemental text for courses on moral or political problems in which contemporary technology is a unit of focus\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn accessible and thought-provoking book for beginning and advanced undergraduates; yet also a helpful resource for graduate students and academics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of figures  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection One: Theoretical Reflections on Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Introductory Considerations of Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Toward a Philosophy of Technology: Hans Jonas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Four Philosophies of Technology: Alan R. Drengson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Relation of Science and Technology to Human Values: William W.Lowrance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Bruno Latour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Technology and Ethics: Kristen Shrader-Frechette\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Considering the Autonomy of Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Autonomy of Technology: Jacques Ellul\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Artifice and Order: Langdon Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Autonomy of Technology: Joseph Pitt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Existential and Phenomenological Considerations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Question Concerning Technology: Martin Heidegger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Man the Technician: José Ortega y Gasset\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Focal Things and Practices: Albert Borgmann\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. A Phenomenology of Technics: Don Ihde\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Critical Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The New Forms of Control: Herbert Marcuse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Technical Progress and the Social Life-World: Jürgen Habermas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Critical Theory of Technology: Andrew Feenberg\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Pragmatic Considerations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Science and Society: John Dewey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Technology and Community Life: Larry Hickman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Feminist Considerations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentith Century: Donna Haraway\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice: Diane P. Michelfelder\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Two: Applied Reflections on Technology and Value\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Technology and Value in Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary: John McDermott\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21: Domestic Technology: Labour-saving or Enslaving?: Judy Wajcman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Some Meanings of Automobiles: Douglas Browning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Values and BioTechnologies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. How Splendid Technologies Can Go Wrong: Daniel Callahan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral?: Laura M. Purdy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Preventing a Brave New World: Leon Kass\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26: Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Embryos and Beyond: Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Marin Gillis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Food for Thought: Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Value Judgments and Risk Comparisons. The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops: Paul Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX: Urban Values\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. The Highway and the City: Lewis Mumford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Designing Cities and Buildings as if They Were Ethical Choices: Jessica Woolliams\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. The Local History of Space: Steven Moore\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Community: Joseph Grange\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Urban Ecological Citizenship: Andrew Light\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X: Environmental Values\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Why Mow?: Michael Pollan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Technology: Lori Gruen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. Environment, Technology, and Ethics: Rajni Kothari\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic: J. Baird Callicott\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Deep Ecology: Bill Devall and George Sessions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique: Ramachandra Guha\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. Just Garbage: Peter S. Wenz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI: Immediate Challenges: Information Technologies, Technological Systems and the Future of Human Values\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. Philosophy of Information Technology: Carl Mitcham\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. Into the Electronic Millennium: Sven Birkerts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Why I Am not Going to Buy a Computer: Wendell Berry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. In the Age of the Smart Machine: Shoshana Zuboff\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. The Social Life of Information: John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. The Quest For Universal Usability: Ben Shneiderman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Overall, Technology and Values represents an excellent collection of readings, ranging from classical yet ever timely readings on the nature of technology itself, to cutting edge articles on recent technological developments in the applied sphere. Due to its unique broad and comprehensive coverage of the subject matter, coupled with its comprehensive bibliography, this book is an excellent tool for both graduate and undergraduate courses.”  (\u003ci\u003eAgric Hum Values\u003c\/i\u003e, 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For its size and scope this collection docs a remarkable job of addressing a critical need for greater scholarly and public attention to questions of technology and values in contemporary culture. It is a rich and versatile resource for anyone interested in such questions, and this reviewer hopes that future editions will only improve on its virtues.\" (\u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCraig Hanks\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he is past-chair of the Institutional Review Board. He was previously at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He specializes in philosophy of technology and applied philosophy, and has taught courses on engineering ethics, environmental ethics, biomedical ethics, and philosophy of technology. He is author of \u003ci\u003eRefiguring Critical The\u003c\/i\u003eory (2002) and editor of \u003ci\u003eInner Space\/Outer Space: The Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Technology and the Postmodern World\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); his monograph, \u003ci\u003eTechnological Musings: Reflections on Technology and Values\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming.  \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Values\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive anthology featuring essays and book excerpts written by pre-eminent figures in the field. With writings spanning the early twentieth century up to present day, this is a collection of in-depth readings on key technological issues – everything from biomedical and environmental concerns to the everyday use of computers and other forms of technology.  \u003cp\u003eA one-of-a-kind resource tool, it is specifically designed to help readers make the important connections between abstract themes and concrete applications for both the individual and society. Accessible to the undergraduate, yet thorough enough for graduates and academics, this is an ideal text for courses in technology and society, philosophy of technology, and numerous other technology-related classes.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This carefully selected and well organized collection of readings demonstrate the philosophical importance of technology and should be required reading to anyone wanting to find out how ubiquitous is technology in our lives. I cannot think of a better collection of texts if your task as a teacher is to engage students in questions about technology and values in their everyday lives.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eGregory Fernando Pappas,\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990140829925,"sku":"NP9781405149006","price":96.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405149006.jpg?v=1761786659","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/technology-and-values-isbn-9781405149006","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}